"Laura has a wild streak in her, and I do, too. I just try to keep mine under control, which is, in the end, what would keep us from being friends. It would be hard to watch what she's doing to herself."

"To be known as someone who's dead is kind of strange. In Japan they made a wax corpse of my body and had a funeral on the day Laura was supposed to be killed. They showed me pictures from their version of People magazine, with hundreds of people at the funeral. So strange!

"One reason I wanted to do this film is sometimes I feel defensive about my characters. At fifteen everyone loved Laura - she was the homecoming queen and sweet - and then people started hearing that she had done coke and had a lot of sex and walked on the wild side. But people don't take that path unless they're in pain and feeling lost. I don't think these are things to judge."

"I had a very difficult time feeling finished when the show went off the air and allowing it to just go, and this helped me. It was a wonderful exploration to be able to go back in there and do all the things that people had talked about that Laura had done for so long."

"I never really thought of Laura as sexual because she's a victim of abuse. Sex and love have completely different meanings for her. And she had to go that far, to that hell. Playing her helped me to face my dark side and embrace it. The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us."

"Playing a character like Laura Palmer, your brain does strange things to you. I still have nightmares in which I'm riding with Bob on an old abandoned train."